VBA with Microsoft Excel

Course Description Overview

091159

1 day

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) enables you to enhance and extend the capabilities of Microsoft® Excel® and other applications in the Microsoft® 365 application suite. You can use VBA to perform tasks that would be difficult or impossible to do using only worksheet functions, and you can automate a wide range of tasks so they can be performed faster, more consistently, and with less effort than performing them manually. This course will give you a good foundation for understanding, creating, and using VBA in your own Excel workbooks. You will learn how to use the macro recorder effectively, as well as how to write your own VBA code from scratch. You will use tools built into Excel to explore and learn VBA's capabilities and to optimize and debug your code.

Course Objectives:

In this course, you will develop and deploy VBA modules to solve business problems. You will:

Identify general components of VBA and their appropriate use in solving business solutions.
Record VBA macros to automate repetitive tasks.
Write VBA code to create VBA subroutines and functions.
Use various programming elements to solve problems through code, including variables, objects, conditional statements, and loops.
Eliminate, avoid, or handle errors in VBA code, and optimize its performance.

Target Student:

This course is primarily designed for students who want to gain the skills necessary to use VBA to automate tasks in Excel such as collecting data from external sources, cleaning, and manipulating data. The target student may also want to learn how to create custom worksheet functions to streamline worksheet formulas and make complex worksheets easier to support, maintain, and understand.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in this course, you should be an experienced Excel user who is comfortable creating and working with Excel workbooks, including tasks such as entering worksheet formulas, using absolute and relative addressing, formatting cells, and creating pivot tables and charts. This level of skill could be acquired by taking the Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365 (Desktop or Online) courses, Parts 1, 2, and 3.

Course-specific Technical Requirements Software:

Microsoft® Windows® 10 Professional or Enterprise
Microsoft® 365

NOTE: This course was keyed and tested using Microsoft® 365, although you should be able to use other recent editions and versions (such as Office 2021 LTSC or Office 2019) to perform the activities in this course. However, there will be some minor differences that affect screen shots and minor activity steps. If you plan to use a different version or edition of the software, we recommend that you key the course before you present it, so you'll be able to anticipate any differences from what is shown in the course materials.

NOTE: To use all features of current Office 365 applications, users must be signed into a Microsoft account from the application. Therefore, if you are providing classroom computers for students to use, you must have a valid Microsoft account for each computer.

Course-specific Technical Requirements Hardware:

For this course, you will need one computer for each student and one for the instructor. Each computer will need the following minimum hardware configurations:

1.1 GHz or faster 64-bit processor, at least 2-core
At least 4 GB RAM
50 GB available disk space
DirectX 9 or later graphics card and a 1,280 x 1,024 or higher resolution monitor
Keyboard and mouse (or other pointing device)
Network cards and cabling for local network access
Internet access (contact your local network administrator)
Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen

Certification reference (where applicable)

Course Content:

Lesson 1: Using VBA to Solve Business Problems

Topic A: Use Macros to Automate Tasks in Excel

Topic B: Identify Components of Macro-Enabled Workbooks

Topic C: Configure the Excel VBA Environment

Lesson 2: Recording a Macro

Topic A: Use the Macro Recorder to Create a VBA Macro

Topic B: Record a Macro with Relative Addressing

Topic C: Delete Macros and Modules

Topic D: Identify Strategies for Using the Macro Recorder

Lesson 3: Writing VBA Code Directly

Topic A: Write VBA Code

Topic B: Discover Objects You Can Use

Topic C: Create a Custom Function

Lesson 4: Solving Problems Through Code

Topic A: Make Decisions in Code

Topic B: Work with Variables

Topic C: Perform Repetitive Tasks

Lesson 5: Improving Your VBA Code

Topic A: Debug VBA Errors

Topic B: Deal with Errors

Topic C: Improve Macro Performance

Appendix A: Controlling How and When Macros Run

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